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IORE SMOKE THAN. F1UE
'MpOLOXEL KASr.y-rt.MlTH win. i ln
i!& Si! tisatins; fir iii ift-lioard .s.-.inJals lit
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-5S MStttlnS t'ir ill in-nnaru .si'.lliJJis neiu.
1?' ftVit-ti-nnnhiic 1-. ,s t.'lsk- In llip richt snirit. In
tfi tie llrst plac-f. lit- ilrnws .. -harp lltio lip-
tm ttt'en discrepancies In tin- rulliiK f the
IgS -.different draft l.u.ird.--, with apparent In-
Justice arlsina: from errors of .ludcinent. and
I'Mv- nctual Injustice and fnvorltlsni arising
p" from deliberate rrookedness.
v. ,The membeiH t'f tho draft boards have.
firs' 0 ru'e Justified the conlldenre that was
:. reoosed in thnm
They have Riven faithful
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service.
If two or three scoundrels were
.appointed no one should be surprised. The
;cptirts arc afte.- them nnd they will be
punished.
;,i But no one up'Icps that thpre have been
Wholesale frauds, because no onn believes
jjV ihiit there is nn riplibenite attempt 01. the
;part of a consldpraule number of people
jftf avoid the draft and to shirk duty in
Xhfs nreat crisis.
1,1-ri establishing a half-mile dry zone
about the munitions Plants the Government
iirltty' have wished to assure the tvoikers a
lo healthful exercise.
GERMANY AND THE FOURTH
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l-j&f.mHE Fo
fourth f July is a day dedicated
r-'.fo a' tt
theory of Rnvernment founded on
,'f ttio collective intelligence and co-operation
&Ll rii
f.Sanu tiisuernniciiL ui an ine t-.-ujit. it i
Sfitnterestins on this tourth of July, theie-
ffsffore. to consider the reason recently riven
ifejffor the shortage of clothes in Germany.
iwhere they are being buried and even
marrifcd in garments made or paper.
W One observer succests that them is no
Iflvool available for clothing In Germany
F54''bfcause the Government has taken all the
.-.wool in sichk In order to null it over the
fetjyeof the people.
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" And Grover Cleveland Bergdoll wears
fi' 'the name of a President of thf United States :
g, WUKrv AiNll I'lLsllliiNO
mTtT7! fa V.fip1 tn l-ni Trtil n, r.nrt
fjf. tion are necessary hefore it can be put
t ..nut of the. wav. It Isn't surnrisinir that
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w . wl3 nrait uuarus caurgeu vviui aic emorce
& tnent of the work-or-flght rule in this and
,"( 'ither cities should operate constantly amid
4 chorus of groans. Loafers are the
, hardest worked people in the world, though
, ,they never can get others to agree with
ii- them.
Ik ff Aside from all this, tho hoards which
P have to decide between essential and non-
..- essential employments should be regarded
KSliJ-vUri reverence. They face the most dif-
llr, .'.flcult question ever raised in the world.
tW$ Wovk Is like morals. It is susceptible of
L-gp-yarlous definitions in various localities.
'Mi llfrt ft rt MIC tinnftenrl nnmls n vn i.p-.a
'S-t' AiiniiD -TH-ta rlrn-J Kni.eln i-(U U n -. i.
IV- dr-flght order to enforce may yet be com-
illEA' ,.01.,4 tn rn.n .Vila AV.nA....n ...!. :n .1 1.1.-
iS-iL -pICI.lCU 1.VJ J.VIIC 1.1110 UU3LU1U IIUI.11 111 Ilt'ldS
.-.jyliere they have not yet even thought of
&l venturing.
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Germany has carried the fight to the
,' ljlnnlsh and still the war refuses to tnd.
FIENDISHNESS WITH QUALMS
flHOULD the German flovcrnmpnt n-r.i-
pjp Je,arn the truth concerning the sinking
l??jJr-f.he hospital ship Llandovery Castle, it
ISjsftf Jfj quite likely to be appalled. Repugnance
mXS-n 9? horrors will, of course, not prompt this
pfe je?llnK' The whole dastardly policy of
wS "weltmacht" Is grounded in outrace. nut
x'.'.ifi y executing his infamies the German
ffit ffnker brooks no "Ifs." The crimo coni-y-.
"rnitted with a qualm is a deed of weakness.
'and there are significant signs that the
K 'conduct of the U-boat commander who
attacked the brightly lighted mercy craft
1 ,was faintly colored with this human
IkSjjjVpia fiend who sank the Llandovery
fa&fd&tte Is an outlaw alone with a conscience
Ue to tho gospel of his employers and
tt.too weak to do aught than insult
nltyi
kt'S The restaurant patron struggling to have
Kw order correctly filled knows distressingly
. tea much about "defective service tanslp "
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(THE HUN AND THE PRISONER
rTjijw ljumane treatment of prisoners of
f J,war has always been a point of honor
en? civilized nations.
Bvfdenee, accumulating In ghastly repc-
hi has convinced England and America
jjV.Germany's treatment of Engllsli-
Icing captives has been the blackest
,on .the already foul record of tho
Mji" Government. Unspeakable cruelty
joatnsome uesraaaiion nave oeen in
ted. ill cold blood on thousands of Eng
i?prisoners. Prisoners of other na
nUty, Russian and French and Belgian,
'WWllft Utterly miserable in their filthy iuar-
jurr,' havebeen treated with comparative
tttbtttlness.
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ftC.rtYUUlU W 111JU04IU1C iui 1111a jiauuji
illate in kind upon German prisoners
iotnto But we will retaliate and
JjtfMpn? in France.
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TING FOR
VIIAT WE A HE FIGHTING
Dcfrcnilants of the Men Who Sought Free
dom in America Have Taken Arms
to Make the Whole Worlil Free
fpiIE thoughts suggested on the eve of
tho celebration of the Fourth of July,
this year, arc more inspiring thnn those
which have been provoked by the anni
scrvary within the recollection of any
man now living.
We had been at war only thvec months
last year at this time and we had only
begun to prepare to get ready. This
year we have an army of more than
two million men nnd we have sent about
n million of them to France. They are
crossing the ocean in convoyed fleets
carrying eighty thousand on each trip,
an achievement in the transport of troops
so much greater than anything which
has hitherto been accomplished that
there is nothing to compare with it.
Now, who are thepe men that are going
abroad to fight the German peril?
This nation was founded by lovers of
liberty who fled the oppression of the
old world that they might find a place
in which to be free. For more than
three hundred years there has been a
continuous procession of selective Ameri
cans moving westward across the At
lantic, attracted bv the ideal on which
this land was first populated. Men of
every race have come here, drawn by the
magnet cf freedom. This has been and
is "the free heart's hope and home."
The men who are sailing eastward in
the convoyed transports are the descend
ants of the men who sailed westward a
generation or two generations or ten
generations ago. The liberty which
thei'- ancestors sought here, as well as
the liberty which has grown up in
Europe, fertilised by the example of
America, is imperiled.
We did not realize at first that the war
threatened the freedom of the world.
Yo thought it was a quarrel among the
European States. F.ut as the months
went b;- it was forced upon us that Ger
many was seeking, not the punishment
of the Powers which had interfered with
her colonial dreams, hut was fighting to
control the whole earth. 77int ire
decided that ice muxt tight if trc imuld
retniu those r'ghtu and priritegc for
the sake of trhich our rr.t'of.s foir tip
their roots from the eld world and trmist
plnvtcd them to a more congenial clime.
We have ceased to doubt the purposes
of Germany. We know now that as long
ago as the winter of lftr.M" the Kaiser
called together the great business men
of his country and promised to divide up
the world with them in return for their
financial support in the war which was
to end with a victory in 101"i. We know
that he promised to give to the great
steel king of Germany thirty thousand
acres of mineral land in Australia and
lend him money to develop it, and that
ho promised to him also the privilege of
joining a syndicate which was to CNploit
Canada and that he promised to other
men the riches of India and of France.
And wo know that he told the American
ambassador that when he had disposed
of his European enemies he would turn
his attention to America.
The proof is indisputable thai this tear
was begun as the result of a great plot
to plunder the world for the benefit of
Germany, and to do it at the point of the
sword.
Admiral Mahan years ago warned us
against disarmament because, in his opin
ion the yellow races, when they awak
ened from their lethargy, would develop
great military strength. And these
races which have not, inspired by
greed for the possessions of the Euro
pean races which have, would move west
ward and plunder and ravage and destroy
all that centuries of civilization had
built up. And the Kaiser, to blind
Europe to the purposes for which his
military machine was being built, talked
much about the yellow peril.
But those predatory raids which
Mahan foresaw as coming from the
Orient have started from the center of
Europe, and the yellow peril, held up as
a bugaboo by tho Kaiser, has become in
reality the Teutonic peril. The greed of
the Germans has been excited by the
possessions of the other races and they
are straining every nerve to loot the
riches of the world.
There is not a soldier who does not
know what he is fighting for.' It is a
war for democracy in the broadest and
fullest meaning of that term. The
triumph of the Teutonic ideal would
mean the triumph of autocracy, govern
ment by a class for the benefit of that
class, instead of government resting on
the broad base of the people's will. It
is a war for the triumph of Christian
principles, which is only another way of
saying that it i3 a war for democracy.
There, is only one Ruler of the world and
He docs not sit on a German throne.
We arc all equal before Him.
Greed and oppression, brutality and
bestiality must not be permitted to
triumph. The world has been progress
ing toward the light for nearly two
thousand years. It has moved more
rapidly in the last hundred years than
in all the preceding centuries We are
righting to prevent Germany from turn
ing back the hands on the clock and
.reviving all the abhorrent practices and
policies which the conscience of civiliza
tion has condemned.
ice had not gone to war on these
issues the very stones of the field would
have cried out "Shamet" and we would
have deserved the fate which the Teu
tons held in store for us. We would
have sold our birthright and would have
betrayed the trust which our ancestors
reposed in us.
Tomorrow is Independence Day in
America. It is to be celebrated also in
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France and Jn Brazil and In Uruguay,
where it has been officially proclaimed a
national holiday. Tho day on which the
war ends with victory for tho causo of
right should be celebrated ns Freedom
Day In every nation which has fought
for the right, and the day should he
kept as a perpetual memorial to the men
who have died that the world might be
free.
The old slogan 'Tour years more for
Grover" only Is a decided understatement
with respect to what draft-dodging Mcrgdoll
will get when he Is caught.
MOTHERS OF DEMOCRACY
THE Senate has consented to tho incor
poration under a national charter of the
Mothers of Democracy, composed of
women kin of the fighting men, In spite of
the fact that It had decided to chnrter no
more corporations during tho war. It
made an exception In favor of the mothers
on the ground that their organization was
not commercial. The House will doubtless
agree with thp Senate.
So far from being commercial, this com
pany of women is doing work which could
not he bought for gold. It is extending
human sympathy to the families of the
men who have gone to Prance. The other
ilav a poor mother who had been to the
station to bid gooif-by to her son found a
bouquet of flowers at her homo when she
returned, sent there by the Mothers of
Democracy here. The discovery that other
women had thought of her moved her to
tears. When n poor mother says a kindly
and helpful word to a rich woman whose
-mi is away they will all discover that they
aip sisters under the skin and the name
of the organization' will be more than
tnipty words.
Tho headline "Houf
1'lin'ks Cabinet Talks"
does not moan that
their One
KpmulnltiK Prlvllcp.'
Colonel K. M. Is be
having in characteristic fashion, but t.ithrr
that Congressmen, ns usual, are jealous of
nni one else's loquacity.
"Tell the world nf
Thej Will jour unmatched
prowess in shipluillil-
' "ays the Kim l gency Kir el Corporation
ffri't to I'luladilphlit. We w II Ut the
- toll It
-lui
It is ihrering to learn
that under th" new
labor 1 tiling ticket
speculators have no
mi the sidewalk.
Where Ii
rhe.v lt?
standing not even
Strange as it may seem, the IM.Onn Au.
tt inn reserves who failed to "bolster up" the
line made things pretty soft for the Italian
victors.
There are -ome Germans in Krance who
vull have reason to be glad when the fifth
nf July arrives If they happen to he alive
anil able to reason.
After all. the establishment "f 'he new
anti-honze zone atnund the Frankfnrd Arse
nal onl carries out the historic injunction
"Keep your powder dry" in logical stvle.
Would ymi speak of the Independence
Uav orator who talks nbnut his mvn patrlot-i-m
as a fiiurtlmfjuli.tr'.'
To some men who aren't hrave and hate
m-l the current challenge of the draft hoaids
means work or flight
PUNK
Who knows
seems to have
lost clauses.
where Trotsky is? He
vanished to the home of
I'ndouhtrdly thirty epert masseurs are
rubbing down Karl Hosner and grooming
him for the task of taking notes of the
Kaiser's answer to President 'Wilson's In
dependence Day speech.
The casp of writer's cramp that Shake
speare is said to have had will be nothing
to that of Karl Rosner if he has to steno
graph the Kaiser much longer.
Judas Iscarlot should have been a U-boat
captain
The best kind of fireworks for homp con
sumption are. thrift stamps. Xo one will
cct lockjaw from licking them.
The city of, Florence has bestowed its
"freedom" upon President Wilson. Now
we wait for the freedom of St. Helena to
be granted to the Kaiser.
Our Own Cannon Cracker
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When we
celebrate
of Jul.i
tho Fourth
we will not
behave
as In days gone by,
For this year's fire
works are all in one,
The great big cannon
cracker under the Hun.
The fuse is sizzling,
and Hill's Invited to
stick down his face and
see It it's lighted.
"Father and mother are In a safe place,"
wires one of the Czar's daughters. We
hope for their own sakes that they are no
where near a lied Cross sign, or some Hun
will be sure to get them.
The Right Kind of Fireworks
Try lighting the fuse of a War-Savings
Stamp,
It never gave any one lockjaw or cramp:
It injures no children, won't blister or
singe.
And explodes in a way that will make
Wllhelm cringe.
Don't make Mr. McAdoo get a sore throat,
But buy up his stickers and snare VU
helm's goat:
Each one of these stamps Is as good as a
Bond,
And helps to put Wllhelm Behind the
Beyond.
Poor Trotsky!
hunsry look.
He has the Lenine and
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The Shipyard ClfWtcy
(Apologia to Rudyard Kipling)
fpiIE Liner she's a lady, an' so becomin'
rave. (
The Man o' War's 'or 'usband that gives
'cr watchful care.
But, oh, the little cargo boats about to
take their dip,
They've got to hustle for themselves on
cv'ry bloomin' trip.
Slidin' down the ways, Yankee, shoutin'
for tltcir'lotids,
Smilin' at the Delaware, Frisco, Hamp
ton Roach.
Every spar for liberty, cv'ry rivet tmc
For the game of games, Yankee, played
upon the blue.
The Liner she's a lady, an favored toffs
that stride
Upon her spotless tenkwood decks know
well that close beside
The Man o' War, 'er 'usband, is primed
for a surprise.
But, oh, the little cargo boats, uncon-
voyed, bear supplies.
The Liner she's a lady. Her route is
what the fleet
An' that consolin Man o' War decides to
be discreet.
But, oh, the little cargo boats that have
to take their chance
Are just as brave as Private Jones or
any chap in France.
The Liner she's a lady an' was before
the war
Dolled up for rich excursionists and took
'em by the score.
But, oh, our little cargo boats are free
from nomories
To cheer 'em as they plow the waves
of Hun-infested seas.
Tho Liner she's a lady, an' if she wasn't
made
Ten shots to one her steel would go into
the cargo trade.
Tho Man o' War's a corker, but can't
watcli cv'ry place,
An' cargo boats are kind o' proud to run
a fearless race.
H'rii'ii'ii' tn be born, Yankee, 'angin 'round
the yard
Gloucester, Kristin!, Camden Town
youtli is fightin' hard
For the enmin' cliristenin' an' tlte bot
tle's flow,
'Ear tli-e little cargo boats pan tin' quick
to go!
II. T. CRAVEN.
Would Tirpitz Knoiv Her?
EVEN Tirpitz wouldn't recognize the
Lev ialhnn nee Vaterland If he could
see her now.
We saw her one day at Atlantlcport,
that beautiful city that empties Into tho
subway.
I
T HAD been mining hard, the peculiar
kites in the narrow, cavernous streets of
Atlantlcport. Benton upon by wind and
dictation and motion-picture 111ms, harassed
b.v the hot dog fumes from Co come, we
nearly gave It away from Atlanticbeach,
bleached by peroxide and bullied by hall
boys. (J friends, what a climate!
In other words, it had been raining hard,
and In the afternoon a soft, misty fog
sprawled over the harbor, an opalescent
ngueness tinctured with dissolved sun
light and vibrating with the rapid leaps of
home-bound commuters. We were on a
ferryboat, wondering who threw all the
rubbish into tho river, when suddenly
there loomed up out of the mist a gigantic
profile, the most thrilling profile we know:
that of an ocean ship. Stately, with the
most graceful progress known to man, that
of a home-bound -vessel entering port, she
moved toward her berth.
T
.IIE11E is no word of motion delicate
enough, smooth enough, to express that
fluent gliding advancement of a great
vessel as she slips to her waiting pier. It
is a growth so Imperceptible, so full of
satisfaction to the eye that the heart throbs
as one watches. Keats's phrase, "a gradual
swim," is perhaps near to It. It Is the ro
mantic perfection of gentle transition.
Now sho Is here, and now again she is not
here, and yet the eye can hardly discern
her passage. She comes to her home
proudly, and yet sadly ns she thinks of the
bruised hearts to whom she is a symbol.
AND what
. from th
a sight sho was as sho grew
tho mist, took firm outline.
leaned over our ferryboat and passed us
like a dream. Her sides were festooned
ami striped with zigzags and mottllngs of
blue and black and fish-belly white. Along
her stern curves were painted three par
allel false sterns, so that even a few fur
longs away, in tho mistiness of the after
noon, one, could hardly swear where she
ended. Her three great funnel.s. leaning
backward In their proper rake, were
thrown out of gear by a quaint black ver
tical stripe on the middle stack, so that
from a distance she seemed (when her gray
colors faded Into the haze) a vastly smaller
one funnel vessel, headed tho other way.
From her cutwater rose a saw-tooth black
diagonal, rising starkly up her sheer and
counter. This, as the ferry drew off, made
her seem like a destroyer of low freeboard.
As we watched her she seemed to dissolve
and blend with the afternoon, taking on
quaint and various shapes,
PART of the illusion, of course, was due
to the particular atmospheric condi
tion of the afternoon: the bluish dissol
vent haze, the westering sun tobogganing
down on a long slant, refracting among the
soft vapors of the bay. And part of the
illusion may have lain In the trustful heart
of the visitor who expects marvels from
the magic 'city of Cabarablan Nights, and
perhaps stiffens them. with his own qui
nine drops of imagination. ind yet, so
marvelous was the sight, so fantastic and
stirring ns the greatest of all ships drew
tho mantels of mist around her and gravely
swept on to her dock, that we did what
wo have always vowed we would never do.
Wo used a word that we have sworn an
oath 'against and that had not crossed our
lips for six months. "Yes," we said to our
companion, "that's camouflage," C. D. M.
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THE GOWNSMAN
""PATRIOTISM," said ilre'.lip, "Is a khid
"" of provincialism indulged In by people
of small minds," and this great mill, who
is 'the only German poet who has ilscn to
worl I standing, pilled himself on being a
cosmopolitan, not on being a German.
Giictbo was a man of genius and recog
nized his own wherever ho found it; for
example, Faust in Marlowe's "mighty
line," for Marlowe had made the Faust
story two hundred years before Goethe
was born. Goethe excrclred to the full the
most conspicuous of German talents, an
ability to exploit the ideas, thought i an.l
Inventiveness of other people, iiut Goethe
was likewise a man of discernment. It was
he who told his Boswell, Akermann, in
words of late often quoted, "The Prussians
are by nature ba"barians; civilization
makes them ferocious."
THE reader
to have nol
may perhaps no so Keen as
loticed a certain fine careless
ness, an easy abandon in the passages Just
quoted from Goethe. This U the offhand
manner of your Gownsman, who happens
to be writing more than a hundred mlle3
north of that temple of accuracy, the Bos
ton Public Library, and who ia compelled,
therefore, to emulate, If ho does not de
liberately appropriate to his use, the pose
of a certain Harvard professor, who was
constrained, such was the congenita! pre
cision of his mind, willfully to misquote
nnd. so to say, disaccuratize his statements
lest he should seem to smack in the class
room too much of the oil of the study and
wear too obviously the laurels of his learn
ing. This by the way.
PATRIOTISM Is one of the large, hu
mane, primitive instincts. There Is a
value In the personal possession of charac
teristics possessed by no other man. Sach
trHlts arc great feeders nf human vaiicty
and human vailety is .mi inordinate gotii--
mandizer. But it is the large, the gen
eral traits that most ally us with our
kind, for these are they by which hii
manity is recognizable within us and with
out which all our fine personal Idiosyn
crasies aro naught. Patriotism Is as prim
itive as self-defense that put ft club Into
the hand of tho cavo man. as primal ns
tho sense of woman that makes tho wor
shiper, as originally inherent ns mother
love and often as sweet and sacrificing.
TO LOVE one's country is a generous
impulse, because it smites self in the
larger Idea of tho clan, the tribe or tho
nation. It has In It tho elements of faith,
without which fovv things human can sub
sist long; and It has this love of coun
try, the willingness to give for others, to
sacrifice, If need be, life that that larger
idea, that finer ideal may stand in times
to come for the benefit of those who are
yet to be. A thing that so Involves the
imagination is precious beyond tho price
of rubies, for in patriotism is involved
the very essence of heroism and renuncia
tion. BUT patriotism can flourish only In the
atmosphere of freedom. Thoro is a
popular German poem about a grenadier
of Napoleon. This noble puppet the
grenadier, not the emperor did some
thing or other that was brave, something
that ho had to do, and, having reported
to headquarters, fell dead nt the emperor's
feet, happy to die in the imperial presence.
This is what the German has in the way
of patriotism, the faith of a serf for his
feud. Fealty to a sovereign prince ia not
patriotism, especially when to bo other,
wise than faithful can mean only ruin,
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The spaniel fidelity that fawns for favors
a-id trembles at the displeasure of a
human providence, booted and spurred,
knout In hand, is not patriotism. The
patriot Is the freeman who gives of his
own act his fortunes, his life, his nil for
on abstraction called tho state, In which
he embodies, according lo the power of his
imagination, all tli.u Is worth living for
In this world and hoping for in the world
to come. A man's patriotism is the ex
predion of himself. To die for one's
country is truly sweet and decorous (as
the old Latin proverb has in, for thus to
di- ii to expiess the soul of r. noble devo
tion to piiuciple.
"PATRIOTISM is not a little like the wor--1-
ship of God. Untuned and sounded on
a siao'u'iie I stiiug, patriotism may fall
into meie lip-service or substitute for the
true God a superstitious worship of tinsel
idols. Think of the disparity between the
strong-eyed Goddess of American Liberty
and the mail-clad Germtinii, with drawn
sword, chiefly Intent on guarding it stolen
Rhino for stolen it was once if wo go
.back far enough after German example
In matters of theft. Look rather on the
vision of our own wide, fruitful, prosperous
domain, the land of promise and possibility,
the land or importunity, welcoming nil,
giving to all. hoping for all, vast, Inde
finable, bright with the glory of the past
and with the vision of the future. With
nil our nhorH'iimlngh, with all the things
that we wish were otherwise, think of
what it mean-, to be free, to grumble at
whatever you choose to grumble about, to
lejmce in whatever delights you, to pur
sue your way unileterred by precedence,
undismased hy tyranny, unperturbed by
that damnable divinity which doth hedge
a king, ospeolilly a Hohenzollern In his
own nrtillolal country and which ho would
feign plant tn hedge In the rest of tho
vv oiid.
rpHINK of waxing patriotic over a para.
-- noiac with a withered arm, masquerad
ing In foity uniforms, each gaudier than
the last, a pinchbeck Napoleon, served by
a graded bureaucracy, each layer tho
tyrants of tho next below! Do you won
der at the superstition, the Idolatry, the
blasphemy practiced under the law of this
Mahomet, who megaphones to a disgusted
world. "Hohenzollernlsm, Pan-Prussianlsm
of the Sword! "
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unregenerato Gownsman, dear
-- reader, is apt lo snicker when people
aro sentimental. But there Is a time for
sentiment, for feeling, for that expanse
of heart and uplifting of mind which comes
when u man thinks with his fellow men
in the open sunshine or under the stars.
It Is not sentimental to bo madly n lovo
when "the inexpressive she" Is Incom
parable. And our "inexpressive she," our
groat, tender, kind motherland Is incom
parable; not becauso she is better than
all other lands though It la right that wo
should think ho without boasting but be
cause she is ours and wo are what she
has made us.
TyrEN are as the various metals some
"- common but useful in commerce; some
rarer," capable of employment in tho
highai- organisms of life; some precious,
to be wrought by the cunning hand Into
works of art and beauty. It is not the
least of the many blessings which aie
America's that we can take what bullion
wo may to our mint of men and stamp
before Jong upon it and indelibly tne
imago of bur incomparable Gcddess of
Liberty.
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OUR OWN FOURTH
OF JULY PARADE
The following floats will he exhibited:
Garabed Glragosslan
using free energy
lo shave himself
Lenine and Trotsky
walking the ties
The Cities of the Rhine
protesting, In the name of humanity,
against air raids
, U-bqat Captains,
prostrated by having missed a
hospital ship
Austrian Army Chiefs
planning a backward offensive
German Statisticians,
learning how to multiply the number cf
prisoners
Town-planning Committee of Hell,
arguing which street tn name after tho
Kaiser
Posse of Russian Envoys,
explaining competitive solutions of
Russia's troubles
McAdoo,
recovering from Liberty Loan soro throat
by a .poultice of thrift stamps
Hlndenburg,
convalescing from a serious "victory"
Citizens of Berlin,
smoking chopped bark, eating turnips and
wearing paper clothes, waiting with
a sledge hammer for the Kaiser
to come back from France
SOCRATES.
Lost Laurels
Another thing that would have been con
blileieil Impossible four or five years ago
ii that Turkey could possibly get Into any
company that would be bad for her morally..
Ohio State Journal.
"Some" Splash!
With the launching of 100 American ships
on July 1 the Minute Men of Concord who
tired the shot heard round the world will
have to give way for a time to Schwab's
shipbuilders, who will start the splash heard
round the world. Ba'timoro News,
What Do You Knoiv?
QUIZ
1. Where l Trinity C'ollnce (America)?
8. Willi h In the 'utmeir State?
3. What Is the Chance-Clans Trocess?
I. Wii.it N the Code Napoleon?
5. Identlfv "The KnlsM Without Fear acd
Without Itrnroni'li."
(I. Nume the loinposer of "Atdn."
7. What nreat opera vvns "written to order,"
fur u Mieiiul occasion?
S. When ui'il what Is llracuatlon Dai?
I), W'ho Is Count Mlin Tarouca?
10, Wliu nuh' "A treaty Is Hie uromlae of o
nation"?
Answers lo Yesterday's Quiz
1. t'artnrniiliy Is the srlenro and art of map
maklne
S. tiriuul Duke Nicholas Nicrmluletllcli, recently
reported proclaimed (lar of Kussla. Is
niemlier of the iiniierliil houae. a cousin of
the ex-Cznr. uml the son of the es.L'ziir'
ureat-mirle. He was the Itusslan ren
frallnslmo In the first ears of the war and
later won brilliant wrtorlei In the Cau
casus. 3. The sunix "vltrh" In Itusslan names has the,
force of "win of." und Is added to tho
inline of the Individual's father.
4. SuftUt A letter, syllable, or Billables added
to words to modify the lueuiiine of tho
5. Armistice! A temporary truce or suspension
of hoktilltlei by ngrrrment. It may be
'nartlrulur." applied only to u section ot
the theatre of w.ar, or "neneral."
0. Mostnvvi The. ancient capital of Russia, to
which the llolsheilkl trsnhferred the seat
or corrrnmrnt. Is on the Moskwa, and
about too miles southeast of Tetroxrad.
7. Curnellun uud while lire the colors of Cornell
A Tale of Two Cities"! One of the
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toricai novels or i nanes iitcitenst
period Is that of the French Kevolutlon.
0, Sacramento is the capital of California.
10.
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